MCQs on Perception

A cheetah scrambling up a rocky slope in Montana is likely to be perceived as a mountain lion because

__________ processing is like putting together a picture puzzle you’ve never seen before.

Experiments involving infants’ perception of 3-D figures, when combined with visual cliff data, suggest that

The moon illusion is best explained by

Illusions differ from hallucinations in that

Highway engineers sometimes paint stripes on freeway off-ramps to enhance the perception of depth, using the cue of

A man 6 feet in height will look “tall” when surrounded by others of average height, and “short” among a group of professional basketball players. This is an example of

The __________ believe that depth perception is learned.

Figure and ground can be switched in

The stimuli below are organized as three columns rather than six columns because of the organizational principle of XX XX XX, XX XX XX, XX XX XX, XX XX XX:

In making a charcoal pencil drawing, which pictorial depth cue could you most effectively use?

The __________ believe that depth perception is inborn.

The organizational principle demonstrated by the stimuli ” XOXOX, XOXOX, XOXOX, XOXOX, XOXOX ” is known as

Assembling sensations into usable patterns is called

Internal standards used to judge stimuli are referred to as

When you estimate a distance under 50 feet (as when you approach a stop sign or play catch), you are using

The information surrounding a stimulus is known as the

The tendency to group together objects that are the same size, shape, color, or form is known a

Which of the following illustrates the principle of contiguity?

The most basic source of normal depth perception and stereoscopic vision is